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🗞️ HARPERS WEEKLY · October 5, 1867
Complete Issue · New historically exceptional issue — a double-page centerfold of the dedication ceremony of the Antietam National Cemetery, attended by President Andrew Johnson and nearly 15,000 mourners, a Santee Indian village and peace commission meeting in Dakota, and the Queens County Fair on Long Island. A primary document of Civil War commemoration that is cited by Wikipedias Antietam National Battlefield article. One of the most historically significant issues in the 1867 ANTIETAM NATIONAL CEMETERY — DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — \"DEDICATION CEREMONIES AT THE NATIONAL CEMETERY OF ANTIETAM\"
The most significant illustration in the 1867 Civil War commemoration run — a double-page centerfold of the dedication ceremony of the Antietam National Cemetery on September 17, 1867, the fifth anniversary of the bloodiest single day in American military history. Nearly 15,000 people gathered at Sharpsburg, Maryland, for the ceremony, including President Andrew Johnson, four members of his Cabinet, and the governors of 18 Northern states. The cemetery holds the remains of 4,776 Union soldiers killed at Antietam, South Mountain, Monocacy, and other Maryland engagements — 1,836 of them unidentified. The battle of September 17, 1862 remains the bloodiest day in American history, with 3,675 Americans killed in a single day. Johnsons speech was met with hecklers — the crowd, still raw with grief and fury, had no patience for his conciliatory stance toward the South — and the New York Tribune called the ceremony \"a stupidly farcical affair.\" The creation of the cemetery itself was contentious: an early plan to bury both Union and Confederate soldiers was ultimately rejected, and the Confederate dead were interred separately in Hagerstown and Frederick, Maryland. This Harpers Weekly centerfold is explicitly cited in Wikipedias article on Antietam National Battlefield as a primary source illustration. A significant and moving primary document of American Civil War commemoration NATIVE AMERICAN ONE-THIRD PAGE — \"VILLAGE OF SANTEE INDIANS NEAR FORT THOMPSON, MINNESOTA\"
A one-third page illustration of a Santee (Dakota Sioux) Indian village near Fort Thompson, Minnesota — published five years after the Dakota War of 1862 and the mass hanging of 38 Dakota men at Mankato, the largest mass execution in American history. The Santee Dakota had been confined to reservations following the war, and this village scene is a rare documentary glimpse of their community in those early years of confinement. A significant and sobering piece of Santee Dakota and Minnesota Native American history.🤝 ONE-THIRD PAGE — MEETING BETWEEN INDIAN CHIEFS FROM DAKOTA AND PEACE COMMISSIONERS
A one-third page illustration of a meeting between Dakota Indian chiefs and U.S. peace commissioners — capturing the beginning of the Great Plains peace commission process that would culminate in the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867. A significant piece of American Indian policy INSIDE THE ONE-THIRD PAGE — \"QUEENS COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS NEAR HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND\"
A one-third page illustration of the Queens County Fair Grounds near Hempstead, Long Island — a vivid piece of Long Island agricultural and social history, capturing the great county fair tradition of the Gilded photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and dont hesitate to ask any questions — Im happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you ········ Harpers Weekly
Date ··············· October 5, 1867
City ··············· New York
Item Number ········ 173134
Pages ·············· Complete Issue · No supplement
Format ············· Illustrated folio SHIPPING & Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 159-year-old newsprint
• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the centerfold
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